By fedoraonmyhead on Skatehive
When it comes to preventing school shootings, there is an automatic association connecting “action” with “gun laws.” A false dichotomy is presented: We either restrict guns, or we do nothing. So, when the Minneapolis mayor spoke in response to the Annunciation shooting, he focused on guns as the culprit. So have many other metropolitan mayors, the Governor and those rallying at the State Capitol yesterday. The ineffectiveness of this singular advocacy—as far as school safety is concerned—was revealed in a vision I had of this recent perpetrator. Did you watch his video previewing his violence? If you did observe the unrestrained derangement and homicidal nature, you realized this person was going to create a nightmare however possible. If it wasn't his military-style rifle and clips upon which he wrote his slurs and calls for violence—targeting everyone from Indians to Blacks to Trump—he would have homed in on his shotgun and pistol. "We're not talking about your father's hunting rifle